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1. Human Rights

   By Anthony Woodiwiss

   Series: Key Ideas

   Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work in classical social theory and combining it with ideas derived from Barrington Moore, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, Woodiwiss poses and answers the...

   Published February 23rd 2005 by Routledge
2. Making Human Rights Work Globally

   By Anthony Woodiwiss

   This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many peoples lives and a central concern of sociology....

   Published June 1st 2003 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Law, Labour and Society in Japan

   From Repression to Reluctant Recognition

   By Anthony Woodiwiss

   As Japanese companies establish overseas production facilities at an ever more repid pace, it is increasingly important for people in the host countries to understand the preconceptions upon which the Japanese approach to industrial relations is based. This book traces the development of Japanese...

   Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge